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ROMANTICISM, interested in the relationship between the natural world and…

- - - - graduated from St John's College, Cambridge in 1791
        
        enthusiasm for French revolutionary ideals
        
        nervous breakdown caused by the declaration of war between France and England
        
        in 1795 he met Coleridge
        
        they produced a collection of poems, Lyrical Ballads
        
        two edictions: 1798 and 1800
        
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        Wordswoth would deal with man, nature and everyday things making them interesting for the reader
        
        Coleridge would write about supernatural and mistery making them seem real
        
        he wrote:
        
        Lyrical Ballads
        
        The Prelude (1805)
        
        Lucy poems (1798-1801)
        
        The excursion (1814)
        
        in 1843 made Poet Laureate
        
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        two volumes of poems 1807)
  - - - nature is a world of sense perceptions
        
        Wordsworth used especially the sensibility of the eye and ear
        
        according to the philosopher Hartley, moral character develops during childhood as a result of pleasure and pain caused by our physical experiences
        
        interested how nature influences the growth at different point of life
        
        memory is a major force in the process of growth of the poet's mind and moral character
        
        recollection is essential to the poetry
      - TASK AND STYLE
        
        the poet has a great sensibility and an ability to see into the heart of things
        
        the power of imagination enables him to communicate his knowledge
        
        attention to the ordinary things of life, to the humblest people, where the deepest emotions and truths can be found
        
        he used blank verse, though he proved skilful at several verse forms such as sonnets, odes, ballads and lyrics with short lines and simple rhymes
        
        he used the language of common men purified by the poet
- - - - excellent education in the classics but he never graduated
        
        after the disillusionment with the French Revolution, he tried to found a utopian community in America, called Pantisocracy, where private ownership would not exist. However this project failed
        
        main works:
        
        The rime of th Ancient Mariner (1798)
        
        first poem of Lyrical Ballads, it is another Manifesto of the English Romanticism
        
        Christabel (1797)
        
        unfinished poem set in the Middle Ages
        
        Kubla Khan(1798)
        
        unfinished poem, written under the influence of opium
        
        Biographia Literaria (1817)
        
        text of literary criticism and autobiography
        
        he died in 1834
  - - - fancy is a mode of memory, emancipated from the order of space and time
        
        it is not creative and is inferior to imagination
        
        it is a logical faculty which enables a poet to associate material already provided and blend it into beautiful images like metaphores, similes and other poetical devices
      - TASK AND STYLE
        
        Coleridge had a taste for supernatural and dream-like elements
        
        he tried to give his material a semblance of truth
        
        he used archaic language rich in sound devices (repetition, assonance, refrain...)
        
        importance of imagination
        
        nature is a means to represent and symbolise emotional and mental states, it is a stimulus for the poet in fact he uses shapes and colours of the nature to represent poetry
- - - - EMOTION
        
        MEMORY= recollection in tranquillity
        
        KINDRED EMOTION
        
        POEM
        
        READER
        
        EMOTION
- - - - thanks to this ability our perceptions are transformed into ideas, concepts and images
        
        Coleridge and Wordsworth start from personal experiences. While Wordsworth uses imagination to "half-create" or rather modify and trasform data of experience through recollection in tranquillity, Coleridge trascends the data and creates in the true sense of the word thanks to secondary imagination